Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nucor Corporation has 4 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units, indicating several examiner relationships with some concentration at the art-unit level.
KENNY, DANIEL J is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. Portfolio management should coordinate materials terminology and technical positions while keeping amendments responsive to each application’s individual record.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| KENNY, DANIEL J | 1 | 61.8% | +21.6% |
| ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | 1 | 75.4% | +37.7% |
| PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1 | 52.5% | +8.4% |
| YANG, JIE | 1 | 62.5% | +19.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18783060 | COLD FORMED BEAM FOR STRUCTURES AND METHOD OF FORMING THE COLD FORMED BEAM | KENNY, DANIEL J | 30d overdue |
| 18441101 | DIRECT BATH SMELTING PROCESS WITH FAST QUENCH OF MOLTEN MATERIAL IN HOT OFFGAS | ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18783060 | COLD FORMED BEAM FOR STRUCTURES AND METHOD OF FORMING THE COLD FORMED BEAM | KENNY, DANIEL J | 30d overdue |
| 17168977 | MULTIPHASE, COLD-ROLLED ULTRA-HIGH STRENGTH STEEL | YANG, JIE | 20d |
| 18441101 | DIRECT BATH SMELTING PROCESS WITH FAST QUENCH OF MOLTEN MATERIAL IN HOT OFFGAS | ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 2 |
| 3633 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18783060 | COLD FORMED BEAM FOR STRUCTURES AND METHOD OF FORMING THE COLD FORMED BEAM | KENNY, DANIEL J | 3633 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18441101 | DIRECT BATH SMELTING PROCESS WITH FAST QUENCH OF MOLTEN MATERIAL IN HOT OFFGAS | ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | 1733 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18385513 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF REDUCING NON-FERROUS METAL CONTENT OF SCRAP STEEL | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 17168977 | MULTIPHASE, COLD-ROLLED ULTRA-HIGH STRENGTH STEEL | YANG, JIE | 1734 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Feb 05, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialNucor Corporation has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Daniel J Kenny has the most, with 1 of Nucor Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
